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Student at St George's in 1911.
Egyptian Romantic poet, publisher, translator, doctor, bacteriologist and bee scientist, Abu Shadi was a social reformer advocating women’s suffrage and an advocate for experimental Arabic poetry.
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Student at St George's in 1911.
Egyptian Romantic poet, publisher, translator, doctor, bacteriologist and bee scientist, Abu Shadi was a social reformer advocating women’s suffrage and an advocate for experimental Arabic poetry.
Student at St George's 1817, possibly the first Muslim student at the institution, and one of the first Iranian medical practitioners to study in Europe in this period. He came to England to study medicine alongside another young Iranian, Muhammad Kazim (Mohammed Cassim), in 1811 with the British ambassador to Iran, Sir Harford Jones. Hajee Baba was the son of an officer in the Shah’s army, and the sending of students to study in Britain was a way of strengthening the diplomatic ties and connections between the countries. His brother also trained as a mining engineer in Russia. Kazim was to study arts, but died shortly after their arrival in England.
Hajee Baba stayed in England for eight years. Following his studies, Hajee Baba returned to Iran to work as a physician in the court in Teheran. He also worked as an interpreter for Persian missions abroad. Eventually he became the chief physician to the shah.
He may have been the inspiration for a series of best-selling novels, ‘The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan’ (1824-28) by James Justinian Morier, secretary to Sir Harford Jones; Hajee Baba was reportedly annoyed at Morier’s use of his name for this purpose.
He died in 1842 or 1843.
One of the first female students at St George's. Grew up in Victoria, Canada. Daughter of Hewitt Bostock. British Columbia senator. Sent to school in England aged 15, educated at Prior's Field, Godalming.
Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1914. MB, BS Lond 1917. MRCS, LRCP 1917. Surgical registrar, house surgeon, obstetric assistant and resident anaesthetist at St George's Hospital.
House physician at Queen's Hospital for Children in Hackney. Missionary in India in 1922-1934, where she met her husband Victor Sherman. They moved to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where she founded the Humanist League of Canada. Chairperson of the mental hygiene committee for the Canadian Council of Women. Canadian Humanist of the Year 1975.
One of the first female students at St George's in 1917.
Born in Grahamstown, South Africa. Daughter of George Britten. Attended Rhodes University College, Grahamstown and Newnham College, Cambridge.
MRCS, LRCP Lond, MB, BS Lond. House surgeon and house physician at St George's 1919-1920. Honorary medical officer at Settler's Hospital, Grahamstown 1925. GP. Member of Settler's Hospital Board and Fort England Mental Hospital.
One of the first female students at St George's since the First World War, in 1945.
Born in the United States. Ziegfield dancer. Worked as a secretary to Aneurin Bevan, who established the NHS. Studied at Newnham College, Cambridge (1941) and St George's Medical School.
Geneticist. Worked as psychoanalyst at St George's Hospital. Met author Patricia Highsmith in 1948 at New York; the two had a brief affair. Kathryn was married to a publisher Dennis Cohen, who would go on to publish some of Highsmith's books; she was also a co-director of the press. She and her husband designed their avant-garde home at 64 Old Church Street, opposite the Chelsea Arts Club ('Cohen House'). She committed suicide in 1960 by taking an overdose of barbiturates.
Educated at Beirut, Lebanon; Palestinian. Student at St George's in 1943-1948.
Born in Dukafalu, Sáros in the Kingdom of Hungary (now in Slovakia) to Francis De Duka and Johanna de Szechy. Studied at the Lutheran College at Eperjes and the University of Budapest. Served in the Hungarian government in 1848 before joining the National Army during the Hungarian War of Independence (1848-1849).
Student at St George's Hospital on his arrival to London in 1850. Taught German and studied English at the Birkbeck Institution.
Assistant surgeon in the Bengal Army, where he studied many Indian languages and collected natural history specimens to send to the Hungarian National Museum. Retired from the Indian Medical Service in 1877 and settled in England. Researched languages after his retirement. Member of Council of the Royal Asiatic Society. President of the Tropical Section of the Eighth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in 1894. Vice president of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
Married the daughter of Rev Charles Taylor in Calcutta [Kolkata] in 1855; they had two sons. Died 5 May 1908.
Born in Limerick, Ireland. His father, Charles, was an attorney, his mother was Margaret nee Foley.
He was educated at St George's College, Weybridge, King's College, London and St George's Hospital where he held junior posts and was resident assistant surgeon. He was clinical assistant at St Mark's Hospital, where he was influenced by W B Gabriel. His war service was with the RAF, in which he reached the rank of wing commander.
His principal appointment was to Lincoln County Hospital. He wrote articles on Crohn's disease, Fournier's gangrene and ileus following gastrectomy.
In 1943 he married Kathleen Maddocks and they had one son, Charles, who qualified in medicine in 1968.
Born in Budapest, Hungary, son of Desiderius (Deszo) and Anna Elek. Educated at the Lutheran High School.
Studied medicine at St George's; qualified in 1939. Assistant bacteriologist at the pathology department in 1940; Laking-Dakin fellowship in pathology 1942-1943. Obtained a PhD in microbiology. Appointed consultant bacteriologist in 1948. Fulbright fellowship in 1956 in Harvard Medical School, USA. Chair of medical microbiology at St George's in 1957. Worked to establish immunology as a discipline at St George's, although this was only achieved after his retirement, in 1978; he endowed an undergraduate Elek prize in the subject. Persuaded the Public Health Laboratory Service to establish a Public Health Laboratory to join St George's microbiology department in Tooting in 1966. The new microbiology laboratories were named after him in 1984.
Clinical pathologist to the Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases 1946-1947. The first editor of the Journal of Medical Microbiology after persuading the Pathological Society to split the Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology into two separate journals in 1968.
Researched and published on immunology, microbiology and virology, including serological reactions of staphylococcus aureus and diphtheria toxins with Emmanuel Levy; the 'Elek plate' was used for testing for diphtheria bacilli. His research interests also included leprosy and resistotyping, a method for distinguishing between different strains of bacterial species. With his colleagues he recognized a new disease caused by herpes simplex virus infection in the hands of nurses, preventable by wearing of gloves.
Married Sarah Joanna Hall in 1947; they had three daughters. Retired in 1973.
Student at St George’s in 1896. Figure-skater.
Born in Skövde, Sweden. Appears to have worked in a Swedish bank in London. Won gold at the 1898 World Figure Skating Championships. Became a Swedish masseur. Was involved in the planning of the 1908 Summer Olympics. Died in Torquay, England.
Born in Switzerland in 1901, he was the son of Charles August Hagenbach, a well-known confectioner and caterer, and Jessie Macdonald.
He qualified as a doctor at St George's Hospital and Medical School in 1925 and went on to become Resident Medical Officer of Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital between 1926 and 1928. The Medical Register shows him going on to work in general practice at Barnoldswick in 1931, in Cornwall in 1939, and in Combe Down in Bath in 1940. In World War II he served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in India. After leaving the army he returned to Combe Down as a general practitioner and also ran a cottage hospital. He retired in Cornwall in 1958.
He published papers in the British Medical Journal on asthma and local anaesthesia for fractures.
He married Dorothy Brown in 1918 and they had 3 children. Dorothy died in 1939 and later that year Charles Edward Hagenbach remarried Barbara May Crosbie. They had one daughter. After Barbara died, he married Norah Hagerty in 1983. He died in Cornwall in 1993.
Student at St George's 1843-1846. Born 1811 in Beirut, Lebanon. Worked as an interpreter to merchants and to the British consul and as a representative of the East India Company in Syria.
Wrote an autobiography 'A Voice from Lebanon, with the Life and Travels of Assaad Y. Kayat’, published in 1847.
Born in Surrey, son of Henrik (Harry) Kellgren, a Swedish medical practitioner, and Vera Dumclunksen, a Russian refugee. The Kellgren family had been involved in massage and spa treatments, and Kellgren’s father Harry and uncle established a branch of the business in Eton Square, London. His father died in the influenza pandemic of 1919.
Although the business failed, Kellgren’s medical education was paid for by a grateful patient. He studied at Bedales School, St George’s Hospital Medical School (he enrolled in 1898) and the University College Medical School. His brother Ernst Gregor was also a student at St George’s.
Held house posts at University College Hospital. Research fellow with Sir Thomas Lewis 1937-39; in 1938 won a travelling scholarship to study physical medicine in Scandinavia where he examined the concept of ‘referred pain’. During the second world war, he worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital, which had been evacuated to Hemel Hempstead; he also worked at Leavesden Hospital in Hertfordshire operating on the Dunkirk survivors. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in North Africa and Italy.
After the war he joined the Medical Research Council and researched peripheral nerve injuries at the Winfield Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in Oxford, before returning to his career as a physician. He was appointed the clinical director to the University of Manchester Centre for Research in Chronic Rheumatism. In 1953 he was appointed professor of rheumatology at Manchester, and he was dean of the medical school 1968-1973. He studied osteoarthritis, and was interested in developing teaching programmes and medical education, including serving on the Flowers’ committee reviewing London medical schools and postgraduate institutes in 1984. He was an adviser to the World Health Organisation and president of the Heberden Society.
Married Ruth Rushton; they had one daughter and divorced in 1940. Married Thelma Reynolds in 1942; they had four daughters. He died 22 Feb 2002.
Student at St George's in the 1940s. Developed the Ghana-Carnegie postgraduate program in obstetrics and gynecology in Accra, Ghana in 1989 to provide specialist training in West Africa
Born in Cork, Ireland to a French Protestant family. Educated in London at Windmill Street School under William Hunter. Pupil at St George's Hospital 1769; dresser under William Bromfield, John Gunning, Caesar Hawkins and John Hunter. Opened an apothecary's shop in 1775. Member of the College of Surgeons 1777. In practice in Red Lion Square and Covent Garden in London. Teacher of anatomy and midwifery at Cecil Street, Strand and a pupil at St Thomas's Hospital. Studied further at Rheims. Became known as animal magnetizer.
Peterside, Michael Clement Atowri
Studied medicine at St George's 1945-1948. Trained as an ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital before returning to Nigeria
Born in Philadelphia, USA. Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1785, after which he continued his studies in London at St George's under John Hunter.
House surgeon at St George's Hospital 1790. Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1791. Moved to Edinburgh, where he received his MD in 1792. Returned to Philadelphia to work at the Pennsylvania Hospital, where he was during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. Elected member of the American Philosophical Society in 1802.
He performed the first human blood transfusion in 1795, although he did not publish on it. He pioneered the use of stomach pump and used autopsy as a method for observation and discovery. He specialised in cataract surgery, and designed multiple surgical instruments, including the needle forceps, guillotine for performing tonsillectomies and improved splints for treating disclocations. He is often known as the 'Father of American Surgery'.
Student at St George's.
Anaesthetist at Nicosia Hospital, Cyprus. Medical officer at Famagusta Harbour Works. Acting district medical officer at Larnaca. Medical officer at Varosha Hospital, Famagusta. Medical officer at Irrigation works, Famagusta, Cyprus.
Married Emily Martha Marianne Davies in 1896.
From Cairo, Egypt.
Student at St George's Hospital Medical School in 1904. House surgeon and house physician at St George's Hospital.
Professor of anatomy at the School of Medicine in Cairo.